For Yayoi Kusama, being consumed by patterns was a lifelong reality she called self-obliteration. This episode traces how she transformed hallucinations, childhood trauma, and marginalization into one of the most recognizable art empires in history.

We follow her from an abusive childhood in Matsumoto and a wartime parachute factory to the New York avant-garde, the plagiarism of her ideas, her decades living at a Tokyo psychiatric hospital, and her infinity rooms and luxury collaborations.

• Her childhood trauma and hallucinations she called self-obliteration
• Inventing infinity nets and soft sculpture in New York
• Ideas echoed by Oldenburg and Warhol without credit
• Choosing to live at a Tokyo psychiatric hospital from 1977
• Infinity mirror rooms and Louis Vuitton collaborations